not only does it speed up diagnoses, but reveals what is driving the growth of a patient s cancer. just two weeks after surgery, daniel returns to addenbrooke s with his brother, to receive his results. this is a diagnosis that is treatable. but it s not a curable condition, 0k? so this is something that will be life limiting. about 50% of people survive for 15 years or more. but i think it s important that you understand that this isn t something that is going to go away. wow. i don t know what to say. sure. you don t have to say anything. enjoy the next 15 years of my life. he s gone 2 0 to them. a few weeks later, i joined daniel to watch his local football team. the quality of finishing is shocking.
not only does it speed up diagnoses, but reveals what is driving the growth of a patient s cancer. nothing can prepare a patient or a family for the nuclear bomb that detonates at the centre of your world when you receive a diagnosis. just lost her mother, tessa jowell, to brain cancer 2018. the former labour couple of spent her last months campaigning for more funding and research into the condition. brain cancer is the biggest cancer killer of children and people under a0 in the uk. yet treatment options have not changed in decades. because this is low grade. just two weeks after surgery, daniel returns to addenbrooke s with his brother, to receive his results. this is a diagnosis that is treatable. but it s not a curable condition, 0k?
before removing each piece of tumour, surgeons need to be sure it won t affect daniel s speech or his ability to move his body. i m going to show you some pictures now, dan, 0k? - i want you to just say what you see. so at each step, the team checks his responses. light bulb. well done, dan. part of daniel s tumour will be sent for whole genome sequencing. its entire dna will be mapped. what that means is, essentially, we are looking at the abnormalities in the genes that we think caused the tumour in the first place. so, we are really able to drill down into the molecular problems in the tumour. daniel s diagnosis, his future, rests on what they find in these tubes. dna sequencing used to take months. now it can be done in days at these labs near cambridge, of us biotech illumina. not only does it speed up diagnoses, but reveals what is driving